Why is HN not PWA yet?

Question

Asking Dang but also the HN community at large. I know HN development is purposefully slow, but PWAs [1] seem to have caught on as a technology. Anyway I&rsquo;m asking because I don&rsquo;t like hn ios apps and just add the web page to my homescreen (ios pwa).1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps

ifyoubuildit · Accepted Answer

Something I like about HN is that it isn't a moving target. It doesn't seem anxious about keeping up with the joneses techwise.I haven't really noticed many changes in the 10+ years I've wasted lurking here and that's a beautiful thing. It's also in stark contrast with most of the rest of the software I interact with.

krapp · Answer

I kind of hope dang does this just once, maybe on April 1, just deploys the site exactly as is - same layout, same design, same font, no extra features, just as a PWA.People would lose their minds, but they couldn't post the typical complaint because that would mean running javascript. They would just have to sit there staring at a blank page, malding.

account-5 · Answer

What would be the benefit of making HN a PWA?

FrenchDevRemote · Answer

What would be the benefits of this?Hundreds of man hours+maintenance, for what purpose exactly? It's working perfectly as it is.Adding a shortcut to your homepage is really easy if you're that addicted to HN: https://lifehacker.com/how-to-add-a-website-shortcut-to-your...

devonnull · Answer

As someone pointed out in another thread, Y Combinator probably doesn't put a lot of resources (money or human) into HN, so I doubt this a high priority. If it's a priority at all.

bradley13 · Answer

Never touch a running system?